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authorAbraham Arce <abraham.arce.moreno@gmail.com>2010-04-16 14:48:43 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2010-04-21 16:29:22 -0700
commit761172fbf672c5784b2a0d71ca2f4389eb7a2c21 (patch)
treee52513d9473d51eb64722962bbbbdaf28a5b05f7
parentdf245dce572bc22b230a05532a3f9daee50effb5 (diff)
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KS8851: NULL pointer dereference if list is empty
Fix NULL pointer dereference in ks8851_tx_work by checking if dequeued list is already empty before writing the packet to TX FIFO Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000050 PC is at ks8851_tx_work+0xdc/0x1b0 LR is at wait_for_common+0x148/0x164 pc : [<c01c0df4>] lr : [<c025a980>] psr: 20000013 Backtrace: ks8851_tx_work+0x0/0x1b0 worker_thread+0x0/0x190 kthread+0x0/0x90 Signed-off-by: Abraham Arce <x0066660@ti.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/ks8851.c12
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ks8851.c b/drivers/net/ks8851.c
index 13cc1ca261d9..9e9f9b349766 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ks8851.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ks8851.c
@@ -722,12 +722,14 @@ static void ks8851_tx_work(struct work_struct *work)
txb = skb_dequeue(&ks->txq);
last = skb_queue_empty(&ks->txq);
- ks8851_wrreg16(ks, KS_RXQCR, ks->rc_rxqcr | RXQCR_SDA);
- ks8851_wrpkt(ks, txb, last);
- ks8851_wrreg16(ks, KS_RXQCR, ks->rc_rxqcr);
- ks8851_wrreg16(ks, KS_TXQCR, TXQCR_METFE);
+ if (txb != NULL) {
+ ks8851_wrreg16(ks, KS_RXQCR, ks->rc_rxqcr | RXQCR_SDA);
+ ks8851_wrpkt(ks, txb, last);
+ ks8851_wrreg16(ks, KS_RXQCR, ks->rc_rxqcr);
+ ks8851_wrreg16(ks, KS_TXQCR, TXQCR_METFE);
- ks8851_done_tx(ks, txb);
+ ks8851_done_tx(ks, txb);
+ }
}
mutex_unlock(&ks->lock);
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